The cable television company, whose majority owner is Kansas City-based Hallmark Cards, earned $51.6 million in the three months that ended Dec. 31. That’s nearly twice as much as the $26.7 million the company earned in the final quarter of 2013.

Revenue climbed to $134.2 million in the final quarter last year, up from 13 percent from $118.4 million in the same period in 2013.

Crown Media, which operates the Hallmark Channel and other programming, said advertising revenue increased 14 percent to $111.1 million in the quarter from 2013’s fourth quarter.